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Make Your Own Calcium Powder!
In today's video I am showing you how to make calcium powder with both a cuttlefish bone and egg shells! This powder can be used by your pet reptiles and/or amphibians, as well as yourself!
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You can get cuttle fish bones from the bird aisle in the pet shop
@trinefj11
8 жыл бұрын
Not all have it :) mine don't
@julie8368
8 жыл бұрын
Oh well most big pet shops do :)
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
True, but yeah I got it for free because it's from the beach.
@memyself3421
7 жыл бұрын
Leopard Gecko what if you don't live near the beach....?
@julie8368
7 жыл бұрын
Me Myself You can buy them at some pet shops
I always remove the egg membranes. Once dry, they're pretty easy to peel off, and make the eggshells easier to grind, make a fine powder and don't smell.
@sylvia6374
3 жыл бұрын
Would it cause a problem if I didn’t? :0
@Albin0BlackSheep112
2 жыл бұрын
That is an idea. Great that you figured that out. I am going to do this now and keep the membrane because the membrane itself holds its own benefits to health.
"Crispy, dry, and ready to grind" ;)
@verylifelogical4910
5 жыл бұрын
Gross 😂
@engirckt5410
5 жыл бұрын
Are you the real Marx?
@WRGOP
4 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@Monkey-wo5ow
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂🤣🤣
@TitanBait
4 жыл бұрын
@@engirckt5410 yes
i am soooo thankful for your channel :) i;m going to get a leopard gecko for my birthday and watching your videos have really helped me learn more about them :D
@reptikingi3219
7 жыл бұрын
TheRandomPuddleShow im getting one for my birth day too
@moistweasel6196
4 жыл бұрын
Happy very late birthday
The bubbles under the egg membrane are from the reaction of Calcium carbonate and heat. The heart causes the calcium carbonate to break down into carbon dioxide and calcium this causing the bubble under the membrane :3. BTW the main component of eggs is calcium carbonate.
@ashlynwanderer
6 жыл бұрын
Lewis isn’t calcium carbonate pretty much pure calcium in its natural form?
@zooker7938
6 жыл бұрын
Not chemically pure calcium, but calcium is quite reactive so finding "pure" calcium in the wild is nigh impossible. A calcium carbonate molecule is one calcium with one carbon and three oxygen atoms.
@Unsensitive
2 жыл бұрын
I could also simply be the membrane contracting from heating and/or drying.
Ps You can get get cuttlefish bone in the bird section of your local pet store That's where I get mine Cuz I was looking for toys for my parakeet
Thanks for the tutorial! I'll use the powder for my woodlice.
@DragonUdo
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, that was thought too ! :)
I grind up egg shells for my worm bin! I always wondered about using it for my lizard and frogs, but I never heard of anyone else doing that so, I bought calcium. Nice!!!
Speaking as a chicken mom that regularly makes calcium from our eggs I would never use supermarket eggs for this purpose. In the US at least chemicals are fed to the chickens, chemicals are used to wash their eggs and chemicals are sprayed on clean eggs to keep them from going bad before they can be shipped and sold. You will not find anything on labels because they are not required to tell us. Boiling and low temp oven baking will not get rid of all of it. I know it's different in other parts of the world but I know a lot of your viewers are American. I'm so happy you did this video. I think our pets would be much healthier if we incorporated more natural solutions.
@ARIA3173
5 жыл бұрын
Melissa Jones Unlike the US, in the UK it is actually a legal requirement not to clean eggs or spray them with chemicals. Eggs are just cleaned with water and that’s it. I know in the US the opposite is a legal requirement and I’ve always found this interesting :)
@melissamuddle6459
5 жыл бұрын
Aria YT I know other countries have much better standards and practices than ours but I also know there are a lot of Americans watching this channel. That's why I mentioned it. Personally our family grows our own food and/or buys from others practicing organic/nonGMO farming but we are definitely in the minority.
@minecraft-fortnutter2830
5 жыл бұрын
But that’s why you boil the eggshells
I know it’s random but I keep getting adds of people sticking roses in potatoes, help
@Luceium01
3 жыл бұрын
What
@candycaneanimations742
3 жыл бұрын
Wtf
I've watched every video you have made
Cool thank you! I'm going to use white shells that's what we buy.
So I was curious and tasted my homemade eggshell calcium for my Leo, and It had the texture of sand, will it cause impaction? Is it safe?
@fatimabarrera2103
5 жыл бұрын
Minecraft- Fortnutter it dissolved in your mouth no? If you are worried grind it up a bit more
@rats6550
4 жыл бұрын
you can sprinkle the powder on your Leo’s food or in its water, and it should be ok!
@dr.trepphings
3 жыл бұрын
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You could also have used a mortar and pestle to further grind the substrate into powder.
You can also buy cattle bone in the bird isle at a petbstore
Thank you for that video my Leapard Geko named Stittel loves it!!!!
Love how you cover everything and your accent.
I just add a few oyster shells to my tank. Figure they'll slowly disolve in the tank water and less effort. Plus snails can chew on if they like. There's a place in a nearby river where the ground is made of small clam & snail shells, I assume built up over centuries.. I figure I could also use those.
YESS IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS
You can buy big cuttlebone 5 for around £3 in my local petshops
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Yep or free at the beach haha
TYSM💗 YOURE A BLESSING. i dont have a gecko but i will use it for my snails!
In India I can't find the supplement for my iguana but I m very thankful to you that u made this video for us
Oh wow, thank you! Need to try this!
This was very helpful . I just got my leopard gecko Andros and it's really hard to find calcium powder here then I found this video.
Thanks for this vid! I’m going to try this with Phoenix, hopefully she’ll like it!
i get eggs everyday from my chickens and i realized i forgot to buy calcium for my gecko when i got them! thank you so much
Thank you so much for making this! Love your videos
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Aw thanks :)
My birds love to chew on cuttlefish'S all the time😂
@justsomememingbigyoshiwith4832
4 жыл бұрын
Same
Actually, if your actually looking in the pet shops, cuttlefish bone is quiet easy to find, plus you can pretty much just order them from online.
cuttle bone is grate for snails and other bugs
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah I used to always give my giant African land snails a cuttlefish bone.
Well, if you have a kind of lizard that likes to eat eggs you know how to give 'em some calcium!
Make sure you are using the falter blade. If you use the one that points up you will not get as fine a grind
Great video! I'll have to try it sometime
You can buy cuttlefish bone at a pet store in the bird section. It's used for their beaks.
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Yup, but I just got mine for free from the beach lol
Thank you very much, you just saved me from an hour and a half drive to get calcium powder for my tortoise
this will be very useful because I cook a lot of eggs
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Awesome, who knew this whole time you had some free calcium powder just lying there :)
That is smart how do you find that out
Muchas gracias
You shouldn't damage the blender to much but if you do this regularly maybe get a spare blade just for this because you're going to blunt it super fast.
Screen it and it will feel softer
very cool thanks for that information
I am getting a leopard gecko soon and I have a question. Do I have to feed live mealworms to a leopard gecko?
@rcfreak1015
8 жыл бұрын
yes leopard geckos only eat live food i feed mine mealworms and crickets with calcium powder i feed my crickets potatos and water jell
@shifterscribbles
8 жыл бұрын
Rc freak 101 my leo actually still shows interest in already dead food, but you are right in that most will only eat live food 😛
@rcfreak1015
8 жыл бұрын
+Eryu oh do you have smapchat??
@rcfreak1015
8 жыл бұрын
+Rc freak 101 snapchat** cause in my resent replies i need ergent help with my leopard gecko its on his hip or side of his stomach
@fionashepley478
8 жыл бұрын
Are you saying that you feed your gecko dried insects? If so, they have practically no nutrition
Pet stores sell cuttle fish bone for birds so you can do that! 🤗
I made calcium with eggs about a year ago. I found the egg shells didn't stick as well as the calcium you buy at the store. I used a mortar and pestle as well as a food processor but I couldn't get it into a fine powder, it was more the size of sugar than powder. I just put it in my geckos calcium dish so there would be some use for it.
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Ah yeah I meant to have said that the cuttlefish powder one also felt a bit more like sugar than a soft powder.
@mazipan8604
2 жыл бұрын
I know this is 5 years ago, but I use a strainer to separate the finer grains and then process the bigger grains again.
Thank you leopard gecko it helped alot
Plz answer! Could I give this recipe to my budgie.
this is the best video ever made!
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Hahaa thank you :')
Thanks for posting this.
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
No problem :)
300 degrees celcius or Fahrenheit?
So cool!
I live in Pakistan and i have no supplements for reptiles here. Are these as good as bottled supplements from brands for reptiles? Can i use these instead of branded powders? Please help
so if you get a cuddle bone from the birds aile in a petstore do you still need to do the whole washing thing? dumb questiong can you use this for turtles and leopard geckos?
Can I just crack the egg rinse it and put it in with out boiling and without crushing them ?
You all explaing how to get the powder but no one tells us the amount of calcium we are supposed to take daily. I want to put the powder in capsules. Please tell me how much is the daily dosage. Thank you
Thank you sooo much!!
I can also feed this to my tokay gecko right?
This is cool and helpful!
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped :)
Is it safe to sprinkle these on crickets to feed to a tarantula??
Should I keep the membrane in the eggshells?? Cause I pealed it out?? I still have the pieces of membrane in my sink in a bowl. Lol I'm about to boil my eggshells now. So if anyone might know and sees this soon could you pretty please let me know? I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Can you use cuttlefish bones for cats and dogs too?
If you but the bone from a. pet shop should you boil it? I mean can't imagine how many nasty people have touched them after touching who knows what.
i actually use cuttlefish powder, but the Kind that is meant as a suplement for reptiles :)
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Ah right, surely it's all the same, like ground cuttlefish bone will always be calcium powder :)
To make calcium powder can I only use a cuttlefish bone? I can buy it in pet shop so it’s safe
Cool I shall have to try this!
@keeleybrown7767
8 жыл бұрын
With my leopard gecko Velvet. She probably won't go anywhere near the egg one though........
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
You never know, some reptiles eat eggs in the wild, the smell may entice her a little.
@keeleybrown7767
8 жыл бұрын
+Leopard Gecko yeah but it's just that once my uncle was cooking eggs and they stank and she WOULD NOT let me open the lid to her Vivarium. Which was weird cause usually she tries to open it herself and then runs straight onto my hand. I don't think she liked the smell. To be honest neither did I......
hey so i just put a little calcium dish in my tank for my leopard gecko and she grabbed the dish with her mouth started shaking it and threw calcium powder all over the place and is now licking it all up, is too much bad for her?
@rcfreak1015
8 жыл бұрын
yes too much calcium is bad for your leopard gecko just place a small amount in your dish and make sure you clean up all the spilled calcuim hope it helped 😎
@philm9211
8 жыл бұрын
Rc freak 101 how do you know when its too much? cause when ever i hear anyone say anything bout leopard geckos they always say make sure you get them plenty of calcium
@rcfreak1015
8 жыл бұрын
+phil m well i usually put something sturdy under a bottle cap and place my calcium in the cap so it wont spill and i make sure he has plenty of calcium by dusting my crick👍🏻👌🏻😜
awesome im trying that
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Nice :)
@joickvlogging9113
8 жыл бұрын
Leopard Gecko your the best keep it up
Thanks! Quick Question... Do you happen to know the comparison of Calcium or is it as simple as {bone and shell} are both 100% Calcium! Sorry if this is a dumb Q? :-/
@treetzataylor8509
4 жыл бұрын
I believe that they are about the same? And that's not a stupid question :)
Just THANKYOU THANKSYOU
i was watching this video and my brother said leopard gecko and i was like ya lol
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
He recognised the voice? Lol
@joickvlogging9113
8 жыл бұрын
Leopard Gecko ya he did and hes 5 thats how much i watch u lol
can you purchase the cuddle bones that are sold in pet stores for birds?
that so cool!
Are the cattle bones necessary?
Does it have to be just cage free eggs or can we use both cage free and cage eggs
Hello, can you PLEASE make a video on what to do when your crested gecko loses its tail? It would be SO helpful, thank you.😊
@fionashepley478
8 жыл бұрын
You'd probably need to use paper towel as a substrate temporarily and keep an eye out for infection
@yocho2677
5 жыл бұрын
can i feed it to my turtle? i have a yellow bellied slider
I loved this!
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
Uhhh i burned the egg cover when i placed it in the toaster does it still work?
When I give my gecko this do I give her it on it's own or do I mix it with water, if so how much? I only got her yesterday!
Do you leave the membrane
Can we use snail shell to make our calcuim supplement in place of egg shell?
Sorry,I am an new reptile beginner,But...is it okay for tortoises?
Can human you this powder or only meant for pets as calcium supplement?
hey I'm getting a bearded dragon soon and I wanted to know if the egg shell powder could also be a calcium powder for them I'm just not sure since its not many topics about it
Is it edible? and if yes where can I put it and how can I eat it !!
Is it save to use the egg shell one all the time? I have a poultry farm and I was just wondering
Boiling the egg shells is not necessary is you are going to bake the egg shell in the oven because baking them will kill off anything on them> The egg would work better for a Tegu or Monitor.
OMG thx for the video
When to toss out the egg calcium? Like how long to keep it until it expire
What if you don't have a grinder or mixer? Any way around that?
what kind of calcium is it d3 or the kind you can leave in the tank
Did anyone at the start think that that fish was the claciam that she made 🦎
do you remove the eggshell membrane or leave it?
hey can you use normal fish bones and just mash them??
Cool video! Just out of Internet, are you supposed to leave the membrane in the egg shells? I would have thought that it wouldn't be great for a reptile?
@leopardgeckotalk
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah the membrane is just the thin white thing that the egg is attached to, but remove the egg white and yolk :)
What camera do I use, great vid btw
For the chicken eggs, do they have to be brown shells like demonstrated in this video? Or are white shells okay too?
@daltongregory9654
7 жыл бұрын
Mary the Yandere Painting Loli it just has to be egg shell. White, brown it doesn't matter
@covenand3936
6 жыл бұрын
That sounded a lil bit racist =)))
Is it good for Leopard geckos though.
I have one more question....? Lol but what would happen if I just soaked my eggshells in super hot water for like 10-15 mins and then went to baking them for 5-10 mins? Would it still be okay to give to my snails? Thanks, hope everyone is having a good day or night. 😋
I remove the membrane
I have chickens in my backyard.Can I use the organic egg shells?
@utub1473
7 жыл бұрын
As long as you burn boil the bacteria off
@abandoned956
7 жыл бұрын
utub Ok thanks
it's this with D3 or without D3 because I don't have UVB for my leopard gecko. But i do put D3 on her crickets and mealworms
@dandroiddoes3531
7 жыл бұрын
NicolasHerps yes, and you actually have to supplement your gecko with both calcium powder and a vitamin mix which should contain D3, and calcium powder is separate since it is good for the gecko's bones
@enderariq
7 жыл бұрын
Make sure you keep the calcium and multivitamin separate and I would keep a small bowl of calcium in there at all time except for occasionally putting some multivitamin in but not as often I think she made a video on supplements witch should help if I didn't make much sense
@ryando2877
7 жыл бұрын
ariq maxfield Do i put multivitamin and calcium on the same cricket or just one of them and the other next time i feed?